New member looking for adivce on new system.

Ant480

Ant480

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New member looking for advice on new system.

Hi all, having read these forums more and more over the past few months I thought that now would be a good time for my first post.

I’m looking for thoughts/advice on a good upgrade for my rather ancient system.

Without wishing to bore anyone, I built the PC years ago (around 2007 I think) having bought everything from OCUK. It was based around a guide published by PC Gamer magazine entitled “Build a Gaming Rig for £600” (or something similar, I still have the magazine somewhere).

The spec is as follows:

CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6750 (LGA 775);
Motherboard: Asus P5K
PSU: OCZ StealthXstream 600W;
Case: Antec Solo Quiet Mini;
GPU: Was an Nvidia 8800GT – stopped working and replaced with a secondhand ATI card to tide me over several years ago;
RAM: 2Gb DDR2 (Corsair I believe)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500Gb

I fully intended to do some overclocking, but never quite got around to it as everything ran rather well.

The system was left unused for a couple of years during a divorce, but a few months ago I retrieved it and found it unable to boot into Windows.

Having read some of the advice on this forum about the benefits of solid state drives, I carried out the following upgrades (form OCUK of course!) with the intention of being able to carry them across to a full new system:

Samsung 250Gb 850 Evo SSD;
Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2048Mb;
Windows 8.1 64-Bit

I used to spend a lot of time playing games on Steam – the likes of Day of Defeat: Source; Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 as well as Battlefield 2.

I’d now like to play some of the newer games on PC rather than console – titles like Battlefield 4 and Elite Dangerous, for example. I won’t be doing any work on the computer, and feel a bit lame saying it’s just for gaming and internet use, but that is the truth of the matter!

Anyway, rather a long, rambling post, but I’d welcome advice and suggestions on components around £600-700.
 
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I am happy with my current mouse, keyboard and monitor, so don't need to budget for replacing these.
 
Hi and welcome.

Im thinking you need a new case (so everything fits in it (long gfx cards for example) and a CPU/Board/RAM and a nice new PSU.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 WindForce OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N970WF3OC-4GD) £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £257.98
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £56.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £49.99
1 x Antec VSP5000 Silenced Tower Case - Black £39.95
Total : £689.89 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

 
Hi Stulid,

Thanks for the really swift reply - having read lots of posts recently I'd seen you were fast, but wasn't expecting one that quickly!

I was kind of erring towards the i5 4690K as it seems to offer good performance out of the box and will allow me some headroom for overcloking.

Would the stock cooler be OK for mild overclocking?

I was guessing my 260X GPU would need upgrading - not quite the best purchase back in December when I knew I'd want to try newer games sooner or later. At least I can carry over the SSD!

Ant
 
Well at those prices I might as well get a cooler now. As for the free games - that should be a good way of testing the new system!

I'll have a little browse of the cases before I finalise my order as I'm tempted to stretch the budget slighty for something like a Corsair Carbide Titanium.

I understand that there are new graphics cards due soon, but I'm guessing they'll be rather more expensive than the 970 and I'm not looking to game at 4K or anything like that.

Thanks again Stulid, really appreciate the advice.
 
All ordered, bar the 970 - have barely used the 260X, and might as well wait until the new releases to see if prcices change on the 970.

Oh, and I went for the Corsair Carbide 330R Titanium Edition case as it look sneat and well built.
 
Ant480 said:
All ordered, bar the 970 - have barely used the 260X, and might as well wait until the new releases to see if prcices change on the 970.

Oh, and I went for the Corsair Carbide 330R Titanium Edition case as it look sneat and well built.
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From next week onwards 970's will only be bundled with Batman,not batman+TW3

The 970 may see a price drop in the next month,maybe not.If it does its only gonna be around £30-50 tbh.

If your gonna get TW3 anyways,no reason not to get a 970 now imo
 
Not too worried about the games but if that's all the price drop is likely to be I might've slipped up it seems.

I've ordered already so I'll have to do the 970 as a separate order with postage costs again. I do lack common sense at times!
 
Ant480 said:
All ordered, bar the 970 - have barely used the 260X, and might as well wait until the new releases to see if prcices change on the 970.

Oh, and I went for the Corsair Carbide 330R Titanium Edition case as it look sneat and well built.
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Nah, you made the best decision to wait. The new AMD cards may offer an alternative or you could save a few quid if the 970 drops in price.
 
Ant480 said:
All ordered, bar the 970 - have barely used the 260X, and might as well wait until the new releases to see if prcices change on the 970.

Oh, and I went for the Corsair Carbide 330R Titanium Edition case as it look sneat and well built.
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The system sounds ever solid and I think you are right on waiting too see what the new AMD cards do too the market although you may miss out on one of the games with Nvidia. Always wise too go for the case whos style appeals too you personally just check too ensure that it will fit longer cards.
 
Well, I've been a bit reckless since placing my order. The i5 bundle was out of stock with not ETA available for restock. As a result I've upgraded my order to an i7 4790K.

I appreciate that my GPU will be the weak link now, but at least I can upgrade that as required a bit later.
 
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